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World Supersport lined up in order of their best laps in yesterday's race for nineteen laps of racing. A red flag would cut it down to twelve laps to close off the day's racing.

The day got warmer, up to 21ºC, as the World Superbike grid lined up for twenty three laps. The weekend attendance was 52,743 fans through the gates. Alvaro Bautista dropped his bike on the way to the grid and his team frantically dragged lumps of Leicestershire from his plastics as everyone else relaxed.

The weather, a regular character in British racing, was promising to try and visit once again, and with an air temperature of just 18ºC, the ten lap sprint would be keeping its eye on the sky.

Rain threatened once again, as World Supersport lined up for nineteen laps of Donington Park as the temperature dropped to 18.8ºC. Once again, it held off and let the racers race.

World Superbike's opening race of the weekend was blessed with warm, if not actually hot, weather, climbing to 22ºC during the race. The race was twenty three uninterrupted laps of Donington, with a threat of rain coming to nothing.

World Superbike Superpole qualifying follows Remy Gardner setting a new lap record in this morning's warmup. Fifteen minutes would determine the grid for this afternoon's feature race and tomorrow morning's Superpole sprint race.

With the top seven laps set by BMWs and Yamahas, Remy Gardner set a 1'25.823 outright lap record ahead of Toprak Razgatlioglu and Scott Redding. 

Results:

World Supersport qualifying took place under a grey sky that loomed ominously over the track. The air temperature was a deceptive 16.7ºC with a 23ºC track. Red on white flags welcomed the rain a couple of minutes in and twenty minutes into the session, the limited adhesion flags came back out as the rain gently wandered by.